That's true, but that shouldn't cloud the more or less objective aspects of history. The bashi-bazouk were not Ottomans, but mercenaries paid by the empire; they came from very different areas and ethnicities and, as is the case today with private security recruited for war zones, they had an absolute lack of control.

How much more or less is something I am going to have to lodge reservations about if the sources of the 'history' mainly come from outside Anatolia, or after the establishment of the Republic.

Not saying this regarding you, personally, but a lot of historiography and even subtle cultural artifacts I encountered growing up in the west are tainted with a provincially-motivated images of the 'Orient', so I have to admit that I take any recollections of Ottoman (or their proxies) behavior with 'a grain of salt'.

The painting you have commendably reproduced itself is a fantastic recollection, the model not himself a combatant and not sitting for the portrait anywhere outside of France.

... the case today with private security recruited for war zones, they had an absolute lack of control ...

I think this also is a narrative that privileges a dominant, state-centric POV. It may be, especially in our contemporary condition, that 'regular' soldiers tend to prolong conflicts and are much better at escaping accountability for their actions as long as their state sponsors remain sovereign and powerful. Even today, mercenaries are subject to far less oversight, but also less legal protection.

You are a very peculiar and interesting person with your contributions,@Alimentazione e quello che sta intorno. It would never have occurred to me to think of the exact functioning of an evaporative refrigerator to see the image of a botijo.